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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:46:03 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/29931: problems with kern.corefile handling 
Message-ID:  <20010823214608.068E93E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010824002924.C1714@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@ringlet.net on "Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:29:24 %2B0300"

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Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> writes:
> > > This looks genuine.  Any objections to committing it, and MFC'ing before
> > > 4.4 comes out?
> > 
> > I don't see any reason to rush the MFC.
> 
> Mmmm.. preventing foot-shooting?  A panicked kernel is a bit too harsh
> a punishment for a misconfigured kern.corefile, IMHO..
> Granted, this level of misconfiguration is not easy to attain ;)
> But it could always happen as a result of a cut-and-paste-o and
> corefiles kept in a central directory or something..

I didn't say it shouldn't be MFC'd at all, just that I think it
shouldn't be MFC'd this late into a code freeze since it's hardly
critical.  Anyway, that's for jkh and murray to decide.  There's
nothing wrong with the patch that I can see.

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